NBM Publishing

NBM Publishing (a.k.a. Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing Inc.) is an American publisher of graphic novels. The company has translated and published over 150 graphic novels from Europe and Canada, as well as several works by Americans. NBM publishes materials for all ages, and it also publishes erotic materials under its Eurotica and Amerotica lines.

NBM's "editorial choices . . . takes [their] cue from the large and well-respected European comics scene." The company claims it is the "second-largest indie comics press after Fantagraphics, with close to $3M in yearly retail sales on over 200,000 graphic novels sold a year, plus tens of thousands of comic books and magazines. . . ."

History

Flying Buttress Publications

Terry Nantier (born 1957) spent his teenage years living in Paris, developing an interest in European comics. Returning to the U.S., Nantier attended the Newhouse School of Communications division of Syracuse University. In 1976, while still a Newhouse student, he teamed with Chris Beall and Marc Minoustchine to found Flying Buttress Publications with an initial investment of $2,100. (Their tagline, referencing the architectural element of the flying buttress, was "the support of a new medium.")